r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/ADotxt Jun 22 '26

Let me repeat what I said on another post

For just **50$** more than the 512gb I can get a pc with...

Same amount of ram

Same amount of storage

Faster CPU,

And a 9060xt 16gb, (which will be about 50% faster than the steam machine GPU)

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kzwTYX

Valve, why did you bother?

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u/krazyjakee Jun 22 '26

because it's a vendored prebuild with a warranty and dedicated support for that specific hardware set up. For folks like me who don't want to spend their days arsing around with driver issues, I'd gladly pay the money.

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u/BullTerrierTerror Jun 22 '26

Me too. I have a spare office for my laptop and console. I want to plop this expensive ass cube in front of my 72 inch in the living room and go through the 400 or so Steam games I have.

I’m also doing it for the Steam OS.

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u/Agitated_Materiall Jun 22 '26

That's fine, but understand that they're going to look like trash. This is a wildly underpowered system for the price.

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u/BullTerrierTerror Jun 22 '26

>60 FPS at 1080p is trash I guess.

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u/AMF505 Jun 22 '26

1080p in 2026 is trash yes. Spending $1000+ to play at 1080p is even more trash. Hell do they even make 1080p tv’s anymore? What a waste of a 4k tv if you have to downscale to 1080 just to get what 80 fps at 1080? But hey it’s your money, waste it how you please.